Convenience crimes in age of entitlement

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If, like me, you are trying to make sense of what is going on in our cities, your first thought may be to look for the immediate cause, the trigger that started the looting and rioting of the past four nights.

In this case it was supposedly the death of a young man, shot dead by police. But it seems this has little to do with it. What is the connection between his death, a peaceful local protest and mass looting?

So, if not that, what? Two things stand out about the events that have unfolded since Saturday night. The